Early encounters in aotearoa

today we learnt about the first explorers to come to New Zealand.

the first person apart from Maori was Abel Tasman and he arrived in 1642  He called New Zealand Nova Zealandia. The next person to arrive to NZ was James Cook and he arrived in 1769. He also brought a navigator called Tupaia. The Europeans brought pigs rats and diseases  and they also brought muskets witch is a old gun. Soon after that the musket wars started in 1830. The population after the wars was 40 Maori to 1 Pakeha.

martian movie review

SPOILER ALERT!!!


my predictions before i watched the movie was: i thought there was going to be a storm


characters: mark watney he got stuck on mars he blew himself up he became a space pirate he grew potatoes he was trying to get to the areas four site to get back to space.


my favorite part of the movie is when he says he is a space pirate

Fred the movie

Here is my story and illustration for Fred it is my movie I have been working on for the past two weeks.

Here is the link to my movie trailer.
https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/d5gPYvIEjxZ/?mode=movie#/

My movie idea

This week in writing I we had to make a movie script. My movie is called FRED it is an action and adventure movie. Here are my characters for the movie.

Fraction practice

Today in maths I did a fraction sheet. i enjoyed the sheet because I liked doing fractions. Here are the answers.


21.     ⅕

22.    2/8  

23.    3/7

24.     23

25.    5/23

26.   6/23

27.     8/23

28.    4/23

Arnie the doughnut

My alternate ending to Arnie the doughnut


Today In reading I had to create an alternate ending to Arnie the doughnut. I enjoyed the story it was funny. It was a story that made me want to read more and more. It drew me in. I found the story on storyline online.

Source: storyline online

Adding decimal practice

Today I had to do decimal practice I found it challenging because I Struggled on the subtraction. I enjoyed the addition of big numbers. Here is my working.